Friday, December 1, 2017

Edwin M. Stanton to Major-General Carl Schurz, September 28, 1863 – 1:35 p.m.

WAR DEPARTMENT,         
September 28, 1863 1.35 p.m.
Maj. Gen. CARL SCHURZ,
Benwood, via Wheeling:

General Hooker is authorized to relieve from command any officer that interferes with or hinders the transportation of troops in the present movement. Whether you have done so, and whether he has relieved you from command, ought to be known to yourself. The order will certainly be enforced against any officer, whatever his rank may be, who delays or endangers transportation of troops.

EDWIN M. STANTON.

SOURCES: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 29, Part 1 (Serial No. 48), p. 172

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